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[albear.livejournal.com]

Crisp bacon in 90 seconds - May 1968
I've never heard of that company before!
huge box, tiny window and I bet it weighed a ton. Plus, the cost would be $3500 bucks in today's money! Expensive! A house was about 50,000 back then

I hate the unnessessary "piping hot" quotation marks! they're just as bad as the Apostrophe catastrophe greatbearmd Woo! Hoo! fellow bear!
brought up last week.

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[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I wonder how many of those still exist? The company still exists, though. It seems that its microwave ovens were an offshoot of its main business, which is the manufacture of radio frequency control device components:

http://www.icmfg.com/faqs.html

[albear.livejournal.com]

No more deleting messages!!!!!!! ;)

Ah! It's like the old US company Litton Industries! it was owned to the company Raytheon of Radarrange, *the very first microwave oven company, they were a defense contractor and they invented the microwave accidentaly by working on radar equipment.

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Sorry! I double posted! ;)

I believe Raytheon's first microwave oven was the size of the average kitchen :)

[albear.livejournal.com]

Kitchens in the UK are tiny! :) here's a Microwave from the 1950;s

Throw them kids in there and set it for 90 minutes or until the dial stops!!!! ;)




(http://tinypic.com)

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

That's so big that it could have been mistaken for a conventional oven. I wonder how many people (especially kids) did so?

Also, is that thingy on the counter top a radio?

[geckoman.livejournal.com]

The thing on the countertop looks to me to be more of an intercom. Intercoms allowed the 'woman of the house' to command from the kitchen to all parts of the rest of the house and answer the door from the convienience of the kitchen as well. They had 'em in The Jetsons.

[rustyfox.livejournal.com]

I had no idea microwave ovens were so old.

My family first got one only 10-12 years ago!

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

They first appeared in the late 1940s :)

My family first bought one (a Toshiba, as recommended by Which? magazine) in 1986. It's still in my father's kitchen, working as well as it ever has done ^^

[albear.livejournal.com]

Damn! Toshiba made microwaves? I have never seen that brand before, but hell! Our first microwave was bought in 1976, it was an import. It was a Sanyo!!! I really haven't seen any Sanyo microwaves. It lasted until 1988. And then I got a Panasonic in 88' it lasted until 2002! I got another PAnasonic then, :P

[shep-shepherd.livejournal.com]

They were a very popular brand in the UK at one time :)

[janenx01.livejournal.com]

I bet those poor children have brain tumors now. :(

[cyclonestruckit.livejournal.com]

The first U.S. microwave, called the RadarRange, looked very much like that, and cost about $1200 in the mid-fifties.

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

In 1968, $50,000 was a mighty nice house. I grew up in the Bay Area, always a hot real estate market, and I remember all the neighbors being abuzz that local home was listed for $60 K in 1970. Our 4B/1.5ba Craftsman sold for about $30 K that year when we moved to the suburbs.

And we got a microwave around 1972. It looked about like that one, though I have no idea what it cost. My mom likes inventions.

[albear.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! I thought I was being cautious by saying a low price :) I'll take 8 of those 50K houses please! :P (the price of a shack in a crappy neighborhood)

[freezer.livejournal.com]

"Crisp bacon in 90 seconds"... Too bad they don't tell you it's just one strip.

[mwittier.livejournal.com]

In the early seventies, when we got our first microwave (for our 32K, split level, three bedroom suburban beast of a house) it was essentially a bacon-makin' machine. Not that I'm complaining, mind you.

Then I bought my mom Richard Deacon's* Microwave Cookbook for Christmas, and all hell broke loose. We made bacon and sloppy joes.


* As in the Dick Van Dyke Show's Mel Cooley. In a chef's hat on the cover, making that Mel Cooley face.

[meleth.livejournal.com]

My dad said his mom cried when he and his brothers bought her the family's first microwave oven. They saved up their summer wages.

[captain-boots.livejournal.com]

I remember after we got our first microwave. That first cup of water mom used to test it. The first time she purposely put in the pot with the foil paint just to see what it did after reading the warning about it.

Mostly I remember the tons of bacon and mayonaise sandwiches I had as a kid now that I could cook the bacon on my own. (didn't like raw tomato)